Joshua 7:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

Shall hear

Exodus 32:12

Numbers 14:13

Environ

Psalm 83:4

Psalm 124:2

What wilt thou

General references

Numbers 14:16

Bible References

Shall hear

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people.

But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,

Environ

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

“Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
When men rose up against us,

What wilt thou

‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces,

I will remove the memory of them from men,”

We have sinned

like our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers,
Weep between the porch and the altar,
And let them say, “Spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not make Your inheritance a reproach,
A byword among the nations.
Why should they among the peoples say,
‘Where is their God?’”

Father, glorify Your name.”

Then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

General references

‘Because the Lord

could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’